Closet-seat guard.



WILLIAM STEELE YOUNG, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

CLOSET-SEAT GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Apr. 22, I919.

Application filed August 25, 1915. Serial No. 47,222.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM STEELE YoUNc, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Waverley, 69 Canto] 1 road, Clapham Common, London, England, have invented a certain new or Improved Closet-Seat Guard, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention consists in the provision of a sanitary guard or cover for the seats of water closets or the like.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of a seat with a guard or cover attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the guard or cover showing the means for attaching same to the Seat.

My invention comprises a pad or block a formed of thin sheets of paper, preferably waxed and treated with a disinfectant, which sheets are compressed and thereby caused to adhere uniformly to each other. A base I) is made of cardboard or other suitable material and of the same shape, approximately, as the hinged front portion 6*,

of the seat to which it is to be fitted, and is attached to said pad or block a by means of glue or other adhesive. This base is provided with a number of pairs of slots, 6 A part of a strip of softmetal, (Z, is passed through each pair of slots. The ends of these strips are .bent around the seat portion 0 in order to secure the pad 0; thereto. In place of such strips I may employ lengths of tape, the ends of which are passed through each pair of slots 12 and tied to the seat portion.

It is intended that each person making use of the pad or block shall remove the top sheet thereof, but two or more sheets might be inadvertently removed as a consequence of the thinness of the material. To enable the user to readily ascertain that he is removing the top sheet, only, of the pad, and thus prevent any inadvertent waste of paper, I cut out a portion of each sheet so as to form a recess or slot, as shown at This cut out portion or slot is preferably situated at one of the corners of each sheet, that in the top sheet being in the right hand corner and that in the second sheet in the left handcorner, and so on, alternately, to the bottom of the pad.

It is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the exact shape of the cut out portion or slot illustrated, and that I may employ other indicating means, such as marks or spots in place of the slots.

I claim:

A closet seat guard comprising in combination a base made to conform to an annulus-like closet seat and having a plurality of slots in it and strips of flexible material the ends of which project from the slots on the underside of said base and are adapted to embrace the margin of said seat and a pad or block of superimposed adhering separable paper sheets secured to said base, substantially aS described.

. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM STEELE YOUNG.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR .I. SMITH, AvIs HUGHES. 

